Macha Green Tea Pound Cake

25. October 2010 Baked Goods + Desserts + Drinks 1
I’ve never heard of blue eggs until I saw them from Holton Farms’ Web site the last time I ordered my CSA produce. Curious, I ordered a dozen even though they cost $7. After some research, I found out that the blue eggs come naturally from these Chilean chickens called Araucana that look like they ...

Day 1 in Portugal: Overnight in Sintra: Casa Miradouro

19. October 2010 Portugal 0
Good thing Daddy knows how to drive stick!, the Dr. beamed proudly as we took another sharp turn on Sintra’s curvy roads. It took us at least an hour to find Casa Miradouro from Lisbon. We drove through the narrow stone streets of Sintra with its numerous forts, monasteries and castles and we kept getting ...

Dovetail

103 West 77th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues 212/362-3800 about $167 for two, with drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ ♥ Oh, this is your place? asked John Fraser, Dovetail’s chef. Erin and I ran into him as we were leaving the restaurant and we started telling him about our vegetarian-vegan restaurant project for this ...

Kajitsu

29. September 2010 East Village, Vegan + Vegetarian 0
414 East 9th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A 212/228.4873 about $150 for two, with drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ ♥ Kajitsu serves shojin, an ancient Japanese cuisine in which meals are prepared by following the Buddhist principle of not taking life. Leave it to Japanese culinary techniques to take a concept like vegetarianism ...

Foraging with Wildman Steve

28. September 2010 Kitchen Gadget Reviews, New York 1
After reading about Bon Appétit, a sustainable-minded food catering company based in–of course–California, and its efforts to get even more local by switching the roles of some of their managers and chefs to “foragers”, I immediately thought, Well, they should call Wildman Steve. I don’t remember how I first heard about Wildman Steve, but I’ve ...